Date: December 29, 1972

Time: 6:49 pm – 6:52 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Col. Richard T. Kennedy.

[See Conversation No. 237-36]

Vietnam War

-Cessation of US bombing north of 20 Parallel

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-Kennedy’s conversation with U. Alexis Johnson

-Notification

-Australian ambassador [Sir James Plimsoll]

-Prime Minister [Gough Whitlam]

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Johnson’s view

-US bombing of North Vietnam

-Press relations

-The President’s conversation with Kennedy and Gerald L. Warren

-Negotiations

-Johnson’s view

-[David] Kenneth Rush’s view

-North Vietnamese reaction

-Timing

-Johnson’s view

-Cessation

-Announcement

-Warren

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. May-08)

-Kennedy’s conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Timing